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esophageal gland — noun : one of the racemose glands in the walls of the esophagus that in man are small and serve principally to lubricate the food but in some birds secrete a milky fluid on which the young are fed … Useful english dictionary
Esophageal disease — Classification and external resources Head and neck. Esophagus at bottom. MeSH … Wikipedia
Esophageal glands — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = glandulae oesophageae GraySubject = 245 GrayPage = 1146 Caption = Layers of Esophageal Wall: 1. Mucosa 2. Submucosa 3. Muscularis 4. Adventitia 5. Striated muscle 6. Striated and smooth 7. Smooth muscle 8.… … Wikipedia
gland — An organized aggregation of cells functioning as a secretory or excretory organ. SYN: glandula (1) [TA]. [L. glans, acorn] accessory g. a small mass of glandular structure, detached from but lying near another and larger g., to which it is… … Medical dictionary
Exocrine gland — Exocrine glands are glands that secrete their products (enzymes) into ducts (duct glands). They are the counterparts to endocrine glands, which secrete their products (hormones) directly into the bloodstream (ductless glands) or release hormones… … Wikipedia
Intestinal gland — Micrograph of the small intestine mucosa showing the crypts of Lieberkühn bottom 1/3 of image. H E stain. Latin glandulae inte … Wikipedia
salivary gland — 1. (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) Glands that open into the mouth, esophagus or at the beginning of the alimentary canal, that secrete a digestive substance; see labial gland, esophageal glands, peptonephridia. 2. (MOLLUSCA: Cephalopoda) In Sepia and… … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
Chromadoria — Taxobox name = Chromadoria regnum = Animalia phylum = Nematoda phylum authority = Rudolphi, 1808 subdivision ranks = Orders subdivision = Monhysterida Desmoscolecida Araeolaimida Desmodorida The Chromadoria are a subclass of the class Adenophorea … Wikipedia
postcorpus — n. [L. post, after; corpus, body] (NEMATA) The posterior part of the esophagus in which the esophageal gland cells are found … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
stenoglossa — ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈgläsə, lȯsə noun plural Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from sten + glossa : a suborder of Pectinibranchia containing many common marine snails (as the cone shells, olive shells, whelks) which have a concentrated nervous… … Useful english dictionary
